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First Nighter: London Consumer Report on "Sweet Bird," "Merrily," Worthwhile Others

David Finkle | Posted 06.15.2013 | Arts
Read More: Stephanie Williams, " Regent's Park Open Air Theatre, Harper Lee, Robert Sean Leonard, James Graham, " Geraldine Page, Damian Humbley, Jenna Russell, Paper Mill Playhouse, "This House, National Theatre, Pulitzer Prize, Maria Friedman, Callum Turner, " Doug Lucie, Nicholas Hytner, Geoffrey Streatfeild, Anton Chekhov, " Lincoln Center, Zora Bishop, "Philistines, Seth Numrich, Marianne Elliott, Isabella Laughland, "Hard Feelings, Rae Smith, "Sweet Bird of Youth, Gregory Peck, Elia Kazan, " Tennessee Williams, Menier Chocolate Factory, Harold Prince, Bunny Christie, George Furth, Justine Mitchell, Mark Umbers, "Merrily We Roll Along, Jesse Fox, Paul Newman, Nick Blakeley, " Howard Davies, Josefina Gabrielle, " Stephen Sondheim, Andrew Upton, Christopher Sergel, "Children of the Sun, Kim Cattrall, Haymarket Leicester, "To Kill a Mockingbird, David Babani, Truman Capote, "Warhorse, " Maxim Gorky, James Hillier, Louise Dylan, Margaret Clunie, Arts News
David Finkle

By 1959 when Tennessee Williams got around to presenting Sweet Bird of Youth on Broadway, as directed by Elia Kazan and starring Geraldine Page and Pa...

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First Nighter: James Graham's Politically Enthralling "This House" Gets the National Theatre HD Treatment

David Finkle | Posted 05.15.2013 | Arts
Read More: Labor Party, Walter Harrison, Houses of Pariiament, British Government, " James Graham, " Soho Theatre, National Theatre Live, Tory Party, "Tory Boyz, Whips, "This House, National Theatre's Olivier, Arts News
David Finkle

If you like theater and you like politics, you're going to jump at the chance to see theater about politics, Then get ready, politically-minded theat...

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First Nighter: Rowan Atkinson, Helen Mirren, Terrific Others Occupy London-Theater Hot Seats

David Finkle | Posted 05.05.2013 | Arts
Read More: " Harold Pinter, Ron Cook, Gilles Taylor, " Wyndham's, Labor Party, "The Queen, " Donmar Warehouse, Mark Haddon, James Graham, "Trelawny of the Wells, Ron Hutchinson, Simon Gray, Tory Party, Apollo Theatre, "This House, Mike Noble, "Port, Simon Stephens, Helen Mirren, Queen Elizabeth II, Stockport, "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, " Sadler's Wells, Marianne Elliott, Jack Deam, Edward Heath, Margaret Thatcher, Adolf Hitler, Patrick Marber, Wilhelm Voigt, " Antony Sher, Richard Eyre, Andrew Havill, " "Anna Karenina, "Old Times, House of Commons, Cambridge, Calum Callaghan, Adrian Noble, "The Audience, "Quartermaine's Terms, Bertolt Brecht, " Carl Zuckermayer, Liz White, Arthur Wing Pinero, " Peter Morgan, National's Cottelsloe, " National's Olivier, Rowan Atkinson, " Kate O'Flynn, "The Captain of Kopenick, Joshua Silver, Harold Wilson, " Rufus Sewell, Joe Wright, "Warhorse, "Atonement, Amy Morgan, Arts News
David Finkle

Due to one of those odd coincidences, theater at the moment seems to be about chairs. Rowan Atkinson sits in a relatively comfy one throughout the flawless revival of Simon Gray's Quartermaine's Terms, at Wyndham's.

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